First ladies biographies
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List of memoirs by first ladies of the United States
Fourteen first ladies of the United States have written a total of twenty-three memoirs. The first lady fryst vatten the hostess of the White House, and the position fryst vatten traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, with some historical exceptions. Every memoir by a first lady published in the 20th and 21st centuries has been a bestseller, at times outselling those of their presidential husbands.[1][2]
In the early s, Abigail Adams had her correspondence published as Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, and Louisa Adams "made several attempts at an autobiography", though she never sought to publish them.[1] The Memoirs and Letters of Dolley Madison, Wife of James Madison, President of the United States were published in but were actually edited bygd Lucia Cutts and written by Dolley Madison's niece Mary Cutts.[note 1][4]
Julia Grant was the first t
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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
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Julia Dent Grant, wife of 18th president Ulysses S. Grant, initially wrote these memoirs as a "family volume," with no intention of sharing them publicly, but in , Julia's great-granddaughters finally allowed her words to be published, and they remain an "important historical resource for interpreting the lives of the Grants, Dents, and enslaved people who lived at White Haven in the nineteenth century," per the National Parks Service. They also speak to the relationship between Ulysses and Julia.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story
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